- If you could make an intervention at the side event on rural women at the 8th session of the Open Working Group in New York, what would be its key message?
Usually talk about rights, opportunities and facilities that should be, quite rightly to the women for access to resources and emponderarse in the agricultural economy of your family, community or country. in many cases, we start from the fact of discrimination and shortcomings to which they are subjected, in some cases more than others. refers to what must be given, which should not be questioned even, but we lose sight of the problem of the prevalence that male gender makes the power of decision and of allocation of things, only by the fact that he decides to. what I mean, is that part of the female gender, should be dealt with first at the origin of the current "machismo", whose ancient foundations are, the ballast which have largely prevented give the social position and women rights.
It is education, training or any method possible, trying to teach the men of the mental and structural changes needed to achieve to enhance the capacities of women and their full participation in all human activities, not only in agriculture. in this specific case, we can see an improvement in the management and creativity for the confrontation of the food and nutritional problems facing us.
Manuel Castrillo
Proyecto Camino Verde
Manuel Castrillo